3) If after all this, you agree to everything, then
email me and
we will get you signed up.

4) For help in setting up your pages you may contact:
Karen, Shirley, or Tim

Rules for Minnesota Counties

Note: These rules are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

This is your page, have fun, give it your own flavor, but please keep a few
things in mind. Make sure you include these 5 elements for Minnesota and
all of the USGenWeb required elements.

1) Adopting a county means it is a part of The USGenWeb Project. It is sad
to say, but some people adopt counties merely to promote their family genealogy.
There is nothing wrong with including your family genealogy on your pages,
but please keep it to a dull roar so that folks know this is a USGenWeb page
and not a family page. The name of your page should be something like ??
County, Minnesota, USGenWeb (or MNGenWeb), and not My Genealogy Page.

3) All County Coordinators are required to be subscribed to the MNGEN-L
mailing list. This is where we discuss all matters having to do with the
project and it gives me, as the state coordinator, a method to communicate
to all Minnesota coordinators in one mailing. There will also be "Roll Call"
on this list every so often you will need to respond to.
4) If you volunteer to coordinate a county we will require that you have
it online in a reasonable amount of time. No, we do not expect you to have
it up in a day or a week. However, when it is a number of weeks later and
the pages are still not up, it is not fair to researchers anxiously waiting
to visit your pages, or to other who might be waiting in line behind you
to adopt the county. We realize that things may come up that delay your pages
such as waiting for an account to be setup or your ISP going down, but rest
assured that we will work with you to resolve these matters.
5) The USGenWeb Project and The MNGenWeb Project will not support any form
of copyright violation by you or your volunteers. For protection from possible
lawsuits by publishers or authors, there are a few steps that you should
follow.

A) If the reference material is not in the public domain, you should first
check the Authors Who have Submitted Permission page to see if the author
has already granted permission, and the Authors who have refused permission
page. If they are not on either list you should obtain written permission
from the author or publisher of that material and be sure it is on file with
USGenWeb. You may obtain a copy of the permission to do lookups form, and
instruction on how to file that permission HERE.

B) You should also include the USGenWeb copyright disclaimer on your lookup
page and be sure that your lookup volunteers read this disclaimer. Suggested
versions of wording you may use can be found here. The complete USGenWeb
copyright FAQ may be view at
http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml

Now you need to make sure you include each element required by USGenWeb:

USGenWeb Rules

There are a few basic requirements that every county page must meet in order
to be associated with our project and be included on the Master County Index
Page for a state. These requirements may be found here.

FAQ of questions I get asked most

Residence in a county is NOT required! Most county hosts do not live
in the counties that they coordinate. They adopt the county because they
love it or because they do most of their own research in that county they
have a knowledge of it and want to help others.

Knowledge of making web pages is not a requirement. There are many
online sources to teach you, and a number of our other county
hosts would be willing to help you also.

"Any" USGenWeb volunteer is welcome to a free FTP account at
RootsWeb, where you may upload your
web pages. Volunteers may use as much space as they need for genealogical
data, though RootsWeb does request that users not upload personal GEDCOM
files, or use the space for any financial ventures. Most volunteers house
their pages here, and there is a mailing list named Rootsweb-help where you
can get all the help you might need plus some.
Uploading Your Website Pages:Website Help
-- Website Design and Maintence Links
If you need assistance with getting your page up.